Kate Middleton and Prince William: Marriage made in Heaven? (Part 34)

Leave it to Crown Princess Victoria of Sweden to spice things up a bit in a fitted, coral dress.

The Royal Wedding Ceremony of William and Kate Live part 2/4

Prince William and Kate moved in together about a year ago. In this clip above the commentator suggested that maybe Prince Charles and Princess Diana would not have divorced if they had lived together before marriage. Actually Diana was a virgin, and it was Charles’ uncle (Louis Mountbatten) that gave him the advice that he should seek to marry a virgin.

I really do wish Kate and William success in their marriage. I hope they truly are committed to each other, and if they are then the result will be a marriage that lasts their whole lifetime. Nevertheless, I do not think it is best to live together before marriage like they did, and I writing this series to help couples see how best to prepare for marriage. 

• In the midst of premarital sex, the worst of couples feels like it’s a great relationship, and that’s one of the great problems with premarital sex. It’s not just that it is sin, but it creates a deception, and it retards the real development of the deeper things. The reason that a couple falls into premarital sex a lot of times is because of the pure novelty of eroticism. Premarital sex that occurs in spontaneity, in combustion, on an eroticism scale of 1 to 10, that’s about a 12. And you can’t maintain that in marriage. When you get married, it’s not going to be this explosive kind of thing that takes off. Oh, every once in a while things happen, but generally it’s going to be the expression of character, it’s going to come out of this fountain of character.

When you get into premarital sex, you go around the character. What happens, though, when you get into marriage, is that premarital stuff doesn’t happen like it used to. Now sex takes place at the end of the day when the man comes in, the woman is doing her deal, they put those kids down, they shower up, brush teeth, clean up, psych themselves up — “all right, it’s time for sex, here we go.” It’s an act of the will. You say, “You’re kidding.” Trust me. If that fountain is not there, of the fear of God, love, servant-hood, kindness, courtesy, helping each other, taking out the trash — if all of those expressions of piety, theology, and Christ-likeness aren’t there, sex isn’t going to happen. You’re going to go frigid. And that’s why couples that get into premarital sex create a deception, they retard the building of what it takes to really develop a relationship, and they build that thing, they cross that bridge on a bridge of balsa. It’s on Styrofoam. They get into marriage, the fountain of piety isn’t there, and now it just becomes frustration, manipulation, the attempt to kick in the eroticism, and it doesn’t work, and you end up just busting it up. (Pastor Tommy Nelson, from Family Life Today broadcast: Unity)

Tim Hawkins – The Dog’s on Fire

Weekend to Remember Story – Dennis Rainey

Revelation (Biblical Numbers 3 of 4)-Dr Adrian Rogers

May 24, 2011 – 6:20 am Categories: Adrian Rogers | Post a comment

Will Maria Shriver’s marriage survive Arnold Schwarzenegger’s admission of infidelity? I hope so (Part 13)

Christina Schwarzenegger Governor Schwarzenegger goes to cast his vote on election day with his wife Maria Shriver and their daughters Christina and Katherine (her first time voting), at the Kenter Canyon elementary school in Brentwood.

The Schwarzenegger Family Voting

Governor Schwarzenegger goes to cast his vote on election day with his wife Maria Shriver and their daughters Christina and Katherine (her first time voting), at the Kenter Canyon elementary school in Brentwood.

Maria Shriver Asks – How Do You Handle Transitions in Your Life?

Arnold Schwarzenegger admitted to his wife several months ago that he had fathered a child about 10 years ago with a member of their household staff. Maria moved out, but has not filed for divorce. In the you tube clip above she comments:

“Like a lot of you I’m in transition: people come up to me all the time, asking, what are you doing next?” she said, adding: “It’s so stressful to not know what you are doing next when people ask what you are doing and they can’t believe you don’t know what you are doing.”

“I’d like to hear from other people who are in transition,” she said. “How did you find your transition: Personal, professional, emotional, spiritual, financial? How did you get through it?”

Mrs. Shriver has asked for spiritual input and I personally think that unless she gets the spiritual help that she needs then she will end up in the divorce court. I am starting a series on how a marriage can survive an infidelity. My first suggestion would be to attend a “Weekend to Remember” put on by the organization “Family Life” out of Little Rock, Arkansas. I actually posted this as a response to Mrs. Shriver’s request on you tube.

I wanted to share the article “He Had Two Affairs in 18 Months,” by Mary May Larmoyeux. I found it very helpful on this subject. Here is the first portion:

…Angela was about six months pregnant when Michael finally confessed his second affair in two years. It had been going on for about four months. Angela tried not to hyperventilate. She thought, This doesn’t happen to people like me.

He said, again, that he wanted a divorce. He said she should go live with her mom and dad.

The marriage conference

A month or so after Angela and Michael separated for the second time, Angela’s mother heard a radio advertisement for a Weekend to Remember®, a marriage getaway put on by FamilyLife. The ad promised help for struggling marriages, so she offered to send Michael and Angela to it.

At first Michael said he didn’t want to attend the conference. Divorce papers had already been completed. He just wasn’t interested.

Angela had an ultrasound and learned that she would have a little girl. After showing her husband the ultrasound pictures, she again asked if he would attend the marriage conference. He agreed to give it a try.

At the conference, “the walls came down” for Michael. He had allowed pent-up resentment to form a barrier between himself and his wife. “I didn’t understand a lot of what God’s purpose was for my life,” he says, “and I definitely couldn’t understand what His love meant.” When the speakers discussed the difference that Christ can make, “for the first time I decided to trust Jesus with my life and marriage.”

On the Saturday night of the conference weekend, Michael called Angela’s parents and apologized for the poor decisions he had made and for what he had put them through. As he talked, Angela thought about how much she did not want to be a single mom. “I wanted our daughter to have her dad,” she says. “And I wanted to be with him.”

Rebuilding a marriage

After the life-changing weekend, the tough work of marriage rebuilding began. Angela had to learn to trust Michael, and that was extremely difficult. “I told him for this [marriage] to really work, I was going to need to see that he wanted to change and that we weren’t going to go through this every year.”

Angela needed reassurance that Michael truly wanted to be married to her. Before the conference he would generally work late whenever asked to. Afterwards, that started to change. He showed his wife that spending time with her was a priority.

“That was huge to me,” Angela says.

Angela and Michael joined a church where they both grew spiritually and connected with other believers. As Michael got to know the men in his small group, he realized that many of his struggles (such as pornography and lust) were very common.

When their child was born, Michael and Angela were more committed than ever to make their marriage work. They continued to apply the principles they learned at the Weekend to Remember. Michael realized that he is supposed to come alongside his wife “in the better days and the worse days, like we said in our marriage vows,” and that Angela is his helpmate during both good and bad times.

Describing herself as an emotional person, Angela says the Weekend to Remember was an eye-opener. She realized her need to share feelings without using accusatory statements. “I remember being able to talk with each other more,” she says. At the end of the conference, the young couple signed a marriage covenant that was witnessed by one of the speakers. Angela felt that Michael was truly committed to rebuilding their marriage for the long haul.

Several months later they renewed their wedding vows with new rings. This time, when Angela pledged her commitment, she had experienced loving her husband for better and for worse. When Michael promised his lifelong faithfulness to his wife, he really meant it.

Today Michael and Angela are the proud parents of two daughters. “It brings me back to earth sometimes,” Michael says, “when I think about what could have happened with us not being together as a family.” 

Angela says that she and Michael are much closer today than they might have been without their trials. “I love him so much,” she says, “and I am so glad that he decided to stick with me.”

When Michael recalls the sense of utter desperation he felt years ago when he parked in the middle of the bridge, he doesn’t know why he didn’t follow through with his original plan and jump.

“The only thing that I can say to explain it is that God had a bigger purpose and I’m still here today.”

Weekend To Remember Conference Testimony

Here’s a couple who went to a FamilyLife Conference and how it made a difference in their marriage.

May 24, 2011 – 6:19 am Categories: Current Events | Post a comment

May 16-18, 1911 Confederate Veterans Reunion in Little Rock Pictures and story (Part 7)

Confederate soldier Julius Howell Interview What The south Fought For

Confederate soldier Julius Howell talking about his capture and imprisonment at the Union prison camp at Point Lookout, Md. Howell was born in 1846 near the Holy Neck section of Suffolk, in the Holland area. He was the youngest of 16 children, the son of a prominent Baptist minister. His daddy wouldn’t allow him to join the army until he was 16½, he says in his account.
He saw action guarding the Blackwater River against Yankees until his regiment was called to help defend Richmond in 1864. By then, he was a corporal and courier for two generals.

In April 1865, Howell was taken prisoner at the battle of Sailor’s Creek and was transported to Point Lookout, Md., a notorious Union prison. He was there when he heard about the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln.

“I arose pretty early,” he says. “There were 20,000 of us there. I saw a flag pole, and a flag stopped halfway.”

The youth, a slightly built man with bright red hair, knew what it meant.

“I stuck my head in a tent and said, ‘Boys, there must be some big Yankee dead.’ ”

A guard told the men later that the president had been shot. Howell says he felt no hatred toward Lincoln, only kindness.

“We didn’t fight for the preservation or extension of slavery,” he says. “It was a great curse on this country that we had slavery. We fought for states’ rights, for states’ rights.”

After the war, Howell taught at Reynoldson Institute in Gates County, N.C. He soon left teaching and went to the University of Pennsylvania, graduating with a history degree. From there, he went on to Harvard and got a doctorate in history.

Howell was a history professor at the University of Arkansas. He eventually headed the department. In 1901, he was named president of Virginia Intermont College in Bristol, where he served for 50 years.

Howell was forever loyal to the South. He became state commander of the Tennessee Confederate Veterans and, in 1940, was named commander-in-chief of the national United Confederate Veterans.

In 1942, Life magazine did a spread on Howell. Several photos of the old gentleman show him dressed in his Confederate uniform. Because legislators wanted to hear more from the Confederate veteran, Howell addressed the combined Congress of the United States in Washington in 1944, when he was 98, and that is when it is believed this tape was made.

Four years later, in February 1948, on his 102nd birthday, the city of Bristol threw a party. His old friend, actress Mary Pickford, and her family attended.

Howell, who had never been sick a day in his life, died the following June.

Julius Howell was the great-great-uncle of former ANV Commander Russell Darden.

All credit goes to sons of confederate veterans i dont take any credit for this, http://www.scv.org/JuliusHowell.php

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 Old State Bank Building at Markham and Center streets in Little Rock (Pulaski County), used as headquarters for the Arkansas Division of the United Confederate Veterans Reunion; 1911.
  

 It took 81 years before more people to gather in Little Rock for another event (Bill Clinton’s election to president).

This is an article from the Encyclopedia of Arkansas:

Little Rock (Pulaski County) hosted the twenty-first annual United Confederate Veterans Reunion on May 16–18, 1911. The reunion drew more than 140,000 people, including approximately 12,000 veterans, making it the largest event in Little Rock history until William Jefferson Clinton’s election night in 1992.

The United Confederate Veterans (UCV) formed in 1889 with a goal of keeping alive the memory of the men who fought for the South during the Civil War and to bring national attention to the needs of the aging veterans. The annual reunion was one of the group’s major projects, and towns across the country vied to host the event.

Judge William M. Kavanaugh chaired Little Rock’s planning committee for the event. Subcommittees arranged for lodging, food, special events, and entertainment for the veterans. The committees arranged for set rates at hotels and restaurants, created additional lodging at schools and private homes, and created special barracks and tent camps.

An estimated 6,000 veterans were expected to attend the reunion. The city erected a veterans’ camp at the City Park (now MacArthur Park). The camp was named for Mena (Polk County) native Confederate Colonel Robert Glenn “Fighting Bob” Shaver of the Seventh Arkansas Infantry, and Shaver served as commander of the camp during the reunion. Accommodations at Camp Shaver were arranged by state, division, and corps to expedite the attendees reuniting with old friends.

Events at the reunion included speeches by Little Rock Mayor Charles E. Taylor and Arkansas Governor George W. Donaghey. Various groups in Little Rock provided entertainment and special events, including receptions, arcades, dances, hot air balloon rides, plus the dedication at City Park of a statue honoring the Capital Guards. The high point of the reunion occurred at 10:00 a.m. on May 18 when the official parade began. The parade route ran from the Old State House at Markham and Center Streets to City Park and back again and took two tours to pass by any single point.

The reunion concluded that evening at the end of the Veterans’ Ball, which approximately 5,800 people attended.

Little documentary information is available about the reunion, but it was featured in newspaper articles and recorded in a series of postcards done by local photographers. These postcards, which include scenes of Camp Shaver and of the city decorated with Confederate banners and portraits of Robert E. Lee and Jefferson Davis, are very popular among collectors.

For additional information:
Polston, Mike. “Little Rock Did Herself Proud: A History of the 1911 United Confederate Veterans Reunion.” Pulaski County Historical Review 29 (Summer 1981): 22–32.

Russell, James D. “The Gray Parade: Little Rock Hosts the Twenty-First National United Confederate Veterans Reunion.” Pulaski County Historical Review 52 (Spring 2004): 2–13.

May 23, 2011 – 1:07 pm Categories: Bill Clinton | Post a comment

Harold Camping “flabbergasted” he was wrong

Harold Camping speaks to International Business Times (IBTimes)

Harold Camping who predicted that on May 21, 2011, about 200 million people will Rapture and those left behind will die when the world gets completely destroyed on October 21, 2011, has told International Business Times (IBTimes) that “(He has) got to live with it (the fact that his prediction has failed)”.
To read more about Harold Camping, visit http://sanfrancisco.ibtimes.com

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Yahoo News reported this morning:

It’s hard to feel bad for someone whose doomsday predictions caused so much anxiety, but 89-year-old Harold Camping’s recent admission that he’s “flabbergasted” the world didn’t end last weekend sounds somewhat pitiful.

“It has been a really tough weekend,” Camping said Sunday, after emerging from his Alameda, California home for the first time to talk to a reporter from the San Francisco Chronicle. “I’m looking for answers…But now I have nothing else to say,” he said, adding that he would make a fuller statement today.

Camping’s PR aide, Tom Evans, told the LA Times that the group is “disappointed” that 200,000 true believers weren’t lifted up to heaven on Saturday while everyone else suffered and eventually died as a series of earthquakes and famine destroyed the Earth. “You can imagine we’re pretty disappointed, but the word of God is still true,” Evans said. “We obviously went too far, and that’s something we need to learn from.” The group posted 2,000 billboards around the country warning of the Rapture, while Camping–an uncertified fundamentalist minister–spread the word on his radio show.

Camping’s Family Radio, which airs on 66 U.S. stations, has apparently rebranded itself quickly. Business Insider notes that the station’s web site has scrubbed all mentions of the Judgment Day. The site previously featured a countdown clock to the May 21 Rapture on its homepage.

 

But the false prediction might not be so easily effaced from the lives of Camping’s followers. The LATimes writes that Keith Bauer, a 38-year-old tractor trailer driver, took a road trip with his family to see the world’s sights before it ended.

“With maxed-out credit cards and a growing mountain of bills, he said, the rapture would have been a relief,” the paper writes.

But Bauer is not angry at Camping for his false prediction. “Worst-case scenario for me, I got to see the country,” he told the paper. “If I should be angry at anybody, it should be me.”

Robert Fitzpatrick, who spent $140,000 of his life savings to advertise the Rapture in New York, said he was dumbfounded when life went on as usual Saturday.

“I do not understand why …,” he told Reuters while awaiting the event in Times Square. “I do not understand why nothing has happened.”

An NPR reporter talked to two Camping followers on Sunday. “One man, his voice quavering, said he was still holding out hope that they were one day off. Another believer asserted that their prayers worked: God delayed judgment so that more people could be saved, but the end is ‘imminent,’ ” she reported.

Evans, Camping’s PR aide, told NPR he hopes Family Radio will reimburse followers who spent their savings in anticipation of the Rapture, but that he can’t guarantee it.

Protesters gathered outside Camping’s radio headquarters to mock the false prophecy over the weekend. Some of them set aloft a toy cow with balloons to lampoon the idea that a select elite would ascend to heaven. Meanwhile, other religious groups tried to recruit disappointed Camping followers.

I love the Book of Daniel and have spent a lot of time studying it. Sorry to see it misinterpreted!

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Here are the other posts I had on this same subject:

Harold Camping “flabbergasted” he was wrong

  Yahoo News reported this morning: It’s hard to feel bad for someone whose doomsday predictions caused so much anxiety, but 89-year-old Harold Camping’s recent admission that he’s “flabbergasted” the world didn’t end last weekend sounds somewhat pitiful. “It has been a really tough weekend,” Camping said Sunday, after emerging from his Alameda, California home […]

Southern Baptist leader says that Harold Camping should apologize

(Photo: Reuters/Reuters TV) Harold Camping, 89, the California evangelical broadcaster who predicts that Judgment Day will come on May 21, 2011, is seen in this still image from video during an interview at Family Stations Inc. offices in Oakland, California May 16, 2011. The U.S. evangelical Christian broadcaster predicting that Judgment Day will come on […]

Harold Camping’s silly billboards and calculations here

  I am a Christian and I do believe Jesus is coming back. In fact, at noon today in Little Rock, the skies got dark and it looked like it was midnight. I am sure the Harold Camping followers were expecting something like this. However, it is 2:53pm now and the skies are much brighter. […]

Both Harold Camping and Edgar Whisenant ignored Matthew 24:36

  I love the Book of Daniel and have spent a lot of time studying it. I noticed a gentleman  making a lot of copies of his notes on the Book of Daniel, and I asked what he was studying. That man was Edgar Whisenant and he began to tell me that he knew the […]

I told Edgar Whisenant he was wrong, and now Harold Camping is making the same mistake

By Justin Berton | SFGate.com For about 10 years I knew a man by the name of Edgar C. Whisenant in Little Rock.  He gave me some material to read and I told him that it was wrong to predict the exact date and time of Christ second coming and he got quite mad when I asserted […]

May 23, 2011 – 11:14 am Categories: Current Events | Post a comment

Ronald Wilson Reagan (Part 85) (1981 Orsini McArthur murder case Part 9)

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Harry Benson and the Reagans: Across Four Decades

Ronald and Nancy, 1966
From Oct. 28, 1980, here is part 4 of the Carter-Reagan Presidential Debate, as taped from CBS.
 
Oct 21, 1984 Presidential Debate President Reagan v Water Mondale

MR. NEWMAN: Ms. Geyer, your question to Mr. Mondale.
Illegal Immigration

MS. GEYER: Mr. Mondale, many analysts are now saying that actually our number one foreign policy problem today is one that remains almost totally unrecognized: massive illegal immigration from economically collapsing countries. They are saying that it is the only real territorial threat to the American nation-state. You, yourself, said in the 1970’s that we had a “hemorrhage on our borders.” Yet today you have backed off any immigration reform, such as the balanced and highly crafted Simpson-Mazzoli bill. Why? What would you do instead today, if anything?

MR. MONDALE: This is a very serious problem in our country, and it has to be dealt with. I object to that part of the Simpson-Mazzoli bill which I think is very unfair and would prove to be so. That is the part that requires employers to determine the citizenship of an employee before they’re hired. I’m convinced that the result of this would be that people who are Hispanic, people who have different languages or speak with an accent, would find it difficult to be employed. I think that’s wrong. We’ve never had citizenship tests in our country before, and I don’t think we should have a citizenship card today. That is counterproductive.

I do support the other aspects of the Simpson-Mazzoli bill that strengthen enforcement at the border, strengthen other ways of dealing with undocumented workers in this difficult area and dealing with the problem of settling people who have lived here for many, many years and do not have an established status.

I have further strongly recommended that this administration do something it has not done, and that is to strengthen enforcement at the border, strengthen the officials in this government that deal with undocumented workers, and to do so in a way that’s responsible and within the Constitution of the United States. We need an answer to this problem, but it must be an American answer that is consistent with justice and due process.

Everyone in this room, practically, here tonight, is an immigrant. We came here loving this nation, serving it, and it has served all of our most bountiful dreams. And one of those dreams is justice. And we need a measure — and I will support a measure — that brings about those objectives but avoids that one aspect that I think is very serious.

The second part is to maintain and improve relations with our friends to the south. We cannot solve this problem all on our own. And that’s why the failure of this administration to deal in an effective and a good-faith way with Mexico, with Costa Rica, with the other nations in trying to find a peaceful settlement to the dispute in Central America has undermined our capacity to effectively deal diplomatically in this area as well.

MS. GEYER: Sir, people as well-balanced and just as Father Theodore Hesburgh at Notre Dame, who headed the select commission on immigration, have pointed out repeatedly that there will be no immigration reform without employer sanctions, because it would be an unbalanced bill, and there would be simply no way to enforce it. However, putting that aside for the moment, your critics have also said repeatedly that you have not gone along with the bill or with any immigration reform because of the Hispanic groups — or Hispanic leadership groups — who actually do not represent what the Hispanic-Americans want, because polls show that they overwhelmingly want some kind of immigration reform. Can you say, or how can you justify your position on this? And how do you respond to the criticism that this is another, or that this is an example of your flip-flopping and giving in to special interest groups at the expense of the American nation?

MR. MONDALE: I think you’re right that the polls show that the majority of Hispanics want that bill, so I’m not doing it for political reasons. I’m doing it because all my life I’ve fought for a system of justice in this country, a system in which every American has a chance to achieve the fullness in life without discrimination. This bill imposes upon employers the responsibility of determining whether somebody who applies for a job is an American or not. And just inevitably, they’re going to be reluctant to hire Hispanics or people with a different accent.

If I were dealing with politics here, the polls show the American people want this. I am for reform in this area, for tough enforcement at the border, and for many other aspects of the Simpson-Mazzoli bill, but all my life I’ve fought for a fair nation. And despite the politics of it, I stand where I stand, and I think I’m right, and before this fight is over we’re going to come up with a better bill, a more effective bill that does not undermine the liberties of our people.

MS. GEYER: Mr. President, you, too, have said that our borders are out of control. Yet this fall you allowed the Simpson-Mazzoli bill — which would at least have minimally protected our borders and the rights of citizenship — because of a relatively unimportant issue of reimbursement to the States for legalized aliens. Given that, may I ask what priority can we expect you to give this forgotten national security element? How sincere are you in your efforts to control, in effect, the nation-state that is the United States?

THE PRESIDENT: Georgie Anne, we, believe me, supported the Simpson-Mazzoli bill strongly — and the bill that came out of the Senate. However, there were things added in in the House side that we felt made it less of a good bill; as a matter of fact, made it a bad bill. And in conference — we stayed with them in conference all the way to where even Senator Simpson did not want the bill in the manner in which it would come out of the conference committee. There were a number of things in there that weakened that bill. I can’t go into detail about them here.

But it is true our borders are out of control. It is also true that this has been a situation on our borders back through a number of administrations. And I supported this bill. I believe in the idea of amnesty for those who have put down roots and who have lived here even though sometime back they may have entered illegally. With regard to the employer sanctions, we must have that not only to ensure that we can identify the illegal aliens, but also, while some keep protesting about what it would do to employers, there is another employer that we shouldn’t be so concerned about, and these are employers down through the years who have encouraged the illegal entry into this country because they then hire these individuals and hire them at starvation wages and with none of the benefits that we think are normal and natural for workers in our country, and the individuals can’t complain because of their illegal status. We don’t think that those people should be allowed to continue operating free.

And this was why the provisions that we had in with regard to sanctions, and so forth — and I’m going to do everything I can, and all of us in the administration are, to join in again when Congress is back at it to get an immigration bill that will give us, once again, control of our borders.

And with regard to friendship below the border and with the countries down there, yes, no administration that I know has established the relationship that we have with our Latin friends. But as long as they have an economy that leaves so many people in dire poverty and unemployment, they are going to seek that employment across our borders. And we work with those other countries.

MS. GEYER: Mr. President, the experts also say that the situation today is terribly different quantitatively — qualitatively different from what it has been in the past because of the gigantic population growth. For instance, Mexico’s population will go from about 60 million today to 120 million at the turn of the century. Many of these people will be coming into the United States not as citizens, but as illegal workers. You have repeatedly said recently that you believe that Armageddon, the destruction of the world, may be imminent in our times. Do you ever feel that we are in for an Armageddon or a situation, a time of anarchy, regarding the population explosion in the world?

THE PRESIDENT: No. As a matter of fact, the population explosion, if you look at the actual figures, has been vastly exaggerated — over exaggerated. As a matter of fact, there are some pretty scientific and solid figures about how much space there still is in the world and how many more people we can have. It’s almost like going back to the Malthusian theory, when even then they were saying that everyone would starve with the limited population they had then. But the problem of population growth is one, here, with regard to our immigration. And we have been the safety valve, whether we wanted to or not, with the illegal entry here, in Mexico, where their population is increasing and they don’t have an economy that can absorb them and provide the jobs. And this is what we’re trying to work out, not only to protect our own borders but to have some kind of fairness and recognition of that problem.

MR. NEWMAN: Mr. Mondale, your rebuttal?

MR. MONDALE: One of the biggest problems today is that the countries to our south are so desperately poor that these people who will almost lose their lives if they don’t come north, come north despite all the risks. And if we’re going to find a permanent, fundamental answer to this, it goes to American economic and trade policies that permit these nations to have a chance to get on their own two feet and to get prosperity, so that they can have jobs for themselves and their people. And that’s why this enormous national debt, engineered by this administration, is harming these countries in fueling this immigration. These high interest rates — real rates that have doubled under this administration — have had the same effect on Mexico and so on, and the cost of repaying those debts is so enormous that it results in massive unemployment, hardship, and heartache. And that drives our friends to the south up into our region, and we need to end those deficits as well.

It has been 150 years since the beginning of the Civil War that started in April of 1861 at Ft Sumter.

Former slaves were photographed

These former slaves were photographed at Fish ...

These former slaves were photographed at Fish Hall, a Hilton Head, S.C., plantation owned by the family of Emma Pope, the wife of Confederate General Thomas Drayton. The plantation was taken over by Union forces following the Northern victory over Drayton’s forces in the Battle of Port Royal in November 1861. The workers in this photo were still planting, harvesting and ginning cotton but were now keeping the profits

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Excerpts from Mary Lee Orsini transcript

The following is a series of excerpts from a July 17 interview between Mary Lee Orsini and Sgt. Jim Dixon and Major Jackie Goodson of the Pulaski County sheriff’s office. The transcript was edited only for basic spelling.

Orsini: The only suspicion is when we pulled out of the driveway, there was his truck sitting in the driveway. And uh, you this is one of things when you go to trial and expect everybody to tell the truth and about half the witnesses got there told the story that wasn’t true and you’re wondering why people, you’re, you’re the bad guy why aren’t they telling the truth. But several times my husband’s partner Vernon had picked my husband up. My husband had a real big engine in that truck. And there was times it wouldn’t turn over and he had to have it started, now since we moved in that house in September he’d never been there. But several time we lived in Emerald Garden, Vernon would come by and get Ron until they could do something with the starter he had problems with that wouldn’t, he’d hit a dead spot, I don’t remember all the circumstances.
Goodson: So your daughter questioned that when y’all got ready to leave?
Orsini: She said you know, what’s Daddy’s truck doing there or something to that effect. And I said well Vernon probably came and got him. And so she being a 14 year old, and had a pretty innocent mind, pretty sheltered mind at that time didn’t have any suspicions.
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Goodson: Okay now when did you do, use the screwdriver?
Orsini: Uh, when I left the upstairs I went back-downstairs, I guess my mind was racing, I don’t remember my mindset, I don’t think I had one that night except insanity. Uh you know I got the screwdriver, if I recall the screwdriver was just lying there, uh…
Goodson: When you put the stuff in the car?
Orsini: I saw the screwdriver, yes, the best I can remember I saw the screwdriver and I thought well I’m gonna go over here and act like I’m opening this door, and then at the door there was already marks on the door, well it took me more, well it wasn’t marks it was like a mark or two, and it took me more tries to do what I’d seen my husband do real easily a day or two before.
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Dixon: I think what he is asking you is did you reveal this to anyone that you know? A close friend, relative?
Orsini: Oh no no,
Dixon: Co-worker?
Orsini: The only person um, no, no. Absolutely not. The only person, I told my mother right before she died. My mother was ill and my mother died in 1999 and I told her the truth cause I thought she deserved the truth. And my mother said Mary please don’t make things any worse for the family than what they already are. And so I told her then that I needed to take care of it. That it needed to be resolved. Uh and uh, when I got up here there were a lot of things that just weighed on me, constantly. And I talked to the chaplain about it and uh we had a tremendous chaplain and he said he would help me resolve it. That’s when Wackenhut still had us up here. And he went to the warden. Uh I believe twice, and…
. . .
Goodson: With your story and what evidence and all that. Uh, what, now probably what I want to hear now is why you decided after 21 years to um to tell the truth of the matter.
Orsini: Um, well I tried to since 1996. You know ’96 was first told my mother and uh she asked me again not to say anything and in ’99 I talked to her about it right before she died and she begged me not to do it. And my daughter is successful, she’s married, and she’s living away from Arka, away from Little Rock. And um uh, you know my family’s suffered a lot and their families suffered a lot. And my mother-in-law died last year without me resolving this with her, and I was crazy about my mother-in-law.
Goodson: Is that Ron’s mother?
Orsini: Uh, huh. She died a year ago January, or this January. Maybe it was last January; it hasn’t been very long that she died. And uh, you know you just have to make things right.
Goodson: It’s a burden to carry ain’t it?
Orsini: You have to make things right.
. . .
Goodson: Why-what made you decide to send one to Chris Piazza?
Orsini: You know why-you probably wouldn’t believe me if I told you. Can I turn the tape off a minute or two I really don’t want…
Goodson: I’d rather you-I’d rather you, I’d rather you be upfront on all it. Cause if we turn it off it will look we…
Orsini: I’m being upfront. It’s just that a lot of people might misinterpret what I’m gonna say. Anytime that I would pray the Lord just kept having heaviness on my heart about this. I was praying and you know Chris Piazza just came to my mind. And I wrestled with it a couple of days and wrote the letter out a couple of days, couple of times. You know I just became grateful for him, for um for pursuing it. Not letting me get by and diligently pursuing the initial case and not being afraid to let me get-to go after doing his job.
Goodson: He’s a well respected…
Orsini: Yeah and even though during the time that there was false evidence used at the trial and I, and I wrestled through the court because there was a lot of false evidence used at my trial to convict me. They even used a lot of lies. What you know God is just, and he’s in Proverbs it says, “The sense-the sentence is just in the hands of the king.” And that means when the judge gives you a sentence it’s just; regardless of what that sentence is. And so I knew that it looked like the time he was promoting a career and all that stuff and that’s how your mind can think. But he was really-he was representing the state of Arkansas justly. So I uh, I wrote him a letter and I let a friend of mine who was here, who-I’ve openly confessed this here in prison.
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May 23, 2011 – 8:47 am Categories: Ronald Reagan | Post a comment

Candidate #1,MN Gov Tim Pawlenty: Republican Presidential Hopefuls (Part H)

 

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FILE – In this April 15, 2011 file photo, former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty speaks at the Greater Boston Tea Party’s third annual “Tax Day” rally on Boston Common in Boston. The former Minnesota governor on Sunday, May 22, 2011 released an Internet video ahead of a public appearance Monday in Iowa, where he planned to formally enter the race for the 2012 GOP nomination. (AP Photo/Winslow Townson, File)

The Associated Press reported this morning:

— Republican Tim Pawlenty on Monday pledged to be a president who levels with the American people and accused President Barack Obama of doing just the opposite as the former Minnesota governor launched his candidacy for the GOP nomination in a pivotal state.

“President Obama’s policies have failed. But more than that, he won’t even tell us the truth about what it’s really going to take to get out of the mess we’re in,” Pawlenty said in prepared remarks. “I’m going to take a different approach. I am going to tell you the truth.”

Pawlenty, who isn’t well known nationally and ranks low in popularity polling, was making his first campaign appearance since announcing his bid for the Republican nomination in an Internet video late Sunday. It came just hours after Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels’ decision against a bid jolted the GOP race and brought the field into clearer focus.

The setting for Pawlenty’s appearance – one block away from the Iowa State Capitol – underscores how important the state’s leadoff presidential caucuses are to his candidacy as he tries to take advantage of Daniels’ absence to position himself as the principle challenger to Mitt Romney. The former Massachusetts governor lost his first bid in 2008 and again is seeking the nomination of a party that historically has nominated a candidate who had run previously.

Given an opportunity to go after Romney in a Monday morning appearance on network television, Palwenty demurred, saying he’d prefer to talk about his own good presidential traits than criticize others. He did acknowledge he probably wouldn’t be able to compete with the former Massachusetts governor in terms of fundraising.

In a highly scripted multi-format campaign introduction spread out over several days, Pawlenty is casting himself as a straight-talking, truth-telling candidate and seeking to convince a Republican primary electorate searching for a hard-nosed nominee that he’s tough enough to take on Obama, the Democratic incumbent.

Pawlenty, who must win the party nomination before getting the chance to take on Obama, virtually ignores his GOP rivals in an announcement video, a column published in USA Today and in excerpts of his speech made available by his advisers.

Instead, he castigates Obama, saying in the excerpts: “America is in big trouble, and it won’t get fixed if we keep going down the same path.” The Republican cast himself as a can-do candidate, saying that Minnesota and Washington confront the same issues: taxes, spending, health care, unions, and the courts. And he said that his record as governor shows that he knows how to “lead a liberal state in a conservative direction.”

“Politicians are often afraid that if they’re too honest, they might lose an election. I’m afraid that in 2012, if we’re not honest enough, we may lose our country,” Pawlenty said, and then outlined bedrock conservative principles. “If we want to grow our economy, we need to shrink our government. If we want to create jobs, we need to encourage job creators. If we want our children to be free to pursue their dreams, we can’t shackle them with our debts. This is a time for truth.”

And, he added: “the truth is, we’re all in this together. So we need to work to get out of this mess together. I’ll unite our party and unite our nation.”

Pawlenty’s Monday visit was his 14th to Iowa since the 2008 election, more than any candidate except former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum.

The little-known Midwesterner hopes an Iowa victory will give him a boost into next-up New Hampshire and beyond, a strategy that carries potential benefits and risks.

If he wins Iowa, as he says he must, Pawlenty could emerge as the chief rival to Romney, who lost the GOP nomination in 2008 and ranks higher in polls this year. If Pawlenty falls short, however, he’ll have to reevaluate the viability of his bid for the Republican nomination, despite the two years’ groundwork he’s laid in his neighboring state.

“In Iowa, he is all in. All his cards are right out on the table,” said Bob Haus, a veteran Iowa GOP strategist who managed Fred Thompson’s 2008 caucus campaign and is uncommitted for 2012.

Pawlenty has used his visits to appeal to many of the sometimes fractious segments of Iowa’s GOP base, seeking to compete for all parts of the party.

“He fits with the social conservatives, has the background of a budget cutter, and he’s strong with national security conservatives. Plus, he’s a good guy, and he’s here, working it,” said Richard Schwarm, a confidant of Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad and a former state GOP chairman who so far hasn’t chosen a candidate to back in the caucuses.

Strategically, Pawlenty has lined up an all-star team of consultants deeply rooted in Iowa Republican campaigns, winning presidential campaigns or, in some cases, both.

They include Iowa natives Terry Nelson and Sara Fagen, former political aides to President George W. Bush, who began working in the 1990s on statewide and caucus campaigns. Also on Pawlenty’s team are state GOP operatives with strong ties to John McCain’s 2008 campaign, as well as some former aides to Romney’s 2008 caucus campaign.

Pawlenty also has hired staff in New Hampshire and courted the powerbrokers in the nation’s first primary state. But he has less riding there than he does in Iowa, where he has said he has a cultural kinship and where fewer candidates may compete aggressively.

Pawlenty appeared Monday on NBC’s “Today” show and CBS’s “The Early Show.”

May 23, 2011 – 8:41 am Categories: Uncategorized | Post a comment

Best Storm Chaser videos of Joplin Tornado May 22, 2011

Destructive Joplin Missouri Torando

On May 22, 2011 a destructive and sadly a deadly tornado tore through the town of Joplin, MO. Here is video of the tornado entering the southwest side of town. Filmed by TornadoVideos.net Basehunters Colt Forney, Isaac Pato, Kevin Rolfs, and Scott Peake.

Missouri tornado filmed by storm chasers

At least 89 people have been killed after a tornado tore through the city of Joplin in the US state of Missouri, officials have said.

The tornado cut a path nearly six miles (10km) long through the city centre, destroying businesses and homes.

Missouri Governor Jay Nixon has declared a state of emergency and warned more storms are on the way.

A team of storm chasers filmed the tornado as it hit the city

Joplin, MO-5-22-11-SeanWilson.wmv

We were chasing this storm and were right behind it when it dropped the tornado in Joplin. The tragedy is horrible. We stopped the camera after we picked up our first injured victim. We picked up many more and worked as an ambulance for many hours, shuttling people to the hospital. We will never forget the people we met, or the things we saw. We pray they all made it . So sad. This is exactly WHY we chase. We are praying for you Joplin.

Good Morning America: Joplin, Missouri Tornado Video: Storm Chasers Capture Storm’s Fury (05.23.11)

Tornado chaser catches sights and sounds of the storm.

For more video of the Joplin, Missouri Tornado, click here: http://abcnews.go.com/US/video/joplin-missouri-tornado-caught-on-tape-13663450

RAW footage TORNADO Missouri Storm Chaser

RAW footage TORNADO Missouri Storm Chaser
5/23/11 News

RAW footage of the Tornado in Joplin, Missouri Last Night

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Best Storm Chaser videos of Joplin Tornado May 22, 2011

Destructive Joplin Missouri Torando On May 22, 2011 a destructive and sadly a deadly tornado tore through the town of Joplin, MO. Here is video of the tornado entering the southwest side of town. Filmed by TornadoVideos.net Basehunters Colt Forney, Isaac Pato, Kevin Rolfs, and Scott Peake. Good Morning America: Joplin, Missouri Tornado Video: Storm […]

Pictures of Tornado damage in Joplin, MO May 22, 2011

  Destroyed helicopter lies on its side A destroyed helicopter lies on its side in the parking lot of the Joplin Regional Medical Center in Joplin, Mo., Sunday, May 22, 2011. A large tornadomoved through much of the city, damaging the hospital and hundreds of homes and businesses Emergency personnel walk Emergency personnel walk through […]

Video clips of tornado in Joplin,MO May 22, 2011(includes footage from the air, and storm chaser video)

 The last video listed does not have very good pictures but you hear when the tornado hits a building where people inside are filming. The sounds are just horrible and a cold feeling went through my body just listening to it. Joplin, Missouri tornado damage from the air Tornado damage of Joplin, Missouri. Aerial coverage […]

At least 89 dead, but still counting in Joplin, MO

    Volunteer firefighters William Jackson Volunteer firefighters William Jackson, left, and Ashley Martin, center, from Oklahoma, and Johnny Ward of Joplin look through the wreckage of a home whereit was feared a pregnant woman as feared to be trapped following a tornado in Joplin, Mo., Sunday, May 22, 2011. A large tornado moved through […]

Fox News reported today:   Rescue crews dug through piles of splintered houses and crushed cars Monday in a search for victims of a half-mile-wide tornado that blasted much of this Missouri town off the map and slammed straight into its hospital. At least 116 people died, making it the nation’s deadliest single tornado in nearly […]

May 23, 2011 – 8:03 am Categories: Current Events | Post a comment

Kate Middleton and Prince William: Marriage made in Heaven? (Part 33)

 
The Wild Cousins

Princesses Eugenie and Beatrice went out on a royal limb with the two most “interesting” looks of the day.
The Royal Wedding Ceremony of William and Kate Live part 1/4
I really do wish Kate and William success in their marriage. I hope they truly are committed to each other, and if they are then the result will be a marriage that lasts their whole lifetime. Nevertheless, I do not think it is best to live together before marriage like they did, and I am writing this series to help couples see how best to prepare for marriage.
 
 Research indicates that once an uncommitted couple gets involved in sexual intercourse, the relationship usually begins to end. They have reached the superficial end of the physical aspects of the relationship, and they have no particularly compelling reason to explore its depths. (Chip Ingram, Love, Sex, and Lasting Relationships)
 
God has designed sexual expression to be experienced between a man and woman within the context of a permanent love relationship. (See Genesis 2:24-25.) Christians who believe this should realize that sex will be fulfilling in a lasting way only in the context of marriage. If we pick a wildflower and take it from its natural environment, it wilts quickly. So, too, the satisfaction of sex is short-lived when it is torn from the setting for which God designed it. (Dennis McCallum and Gary DeLashmutt, The Myth of Romance)
 
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Weekend To Remember Conference Testimony

Here’s a couple who went to a FamilyLife Conference and how it made a difference in their marriage.

 
May 23, 2011 – 7:05 am Categories: Current Events | Post a comment

Will Maria Shriver’s marriage survive Arnold Schwarzenegger’s admission of infidelity? I hope so (Part 12)

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Christina Schwarzenegger The Govenator Arnold Schwarzenegger takes a walk on Ocean Ave with his wife Maria Shriver and daughter Christina Schwarzenegger in Santa Monica, CA.

Arnold Schwarzenegger & Family Out For A Walk In Santa Monica

The Govenator Arnold Schwarzenegger takes a walk on Ocean Ave with his wife Maria Shriver and daughter Christina Schwarzenegger in Santa Monica, CA.

(// May 23, 2009- Photo by FlynetPictures.com)

Maria Shriver Asks – How Do You Handle Transitions in Your Life?

Arnold Schwarzenegger admitted to his wife several months ago that he had fathered a child about 10 years ago with a member of their household staff. Maria moved out, but has not filed for divorce. In the you tube clip above she comments:

“Like a lot of you I’m in transition: people come up to me all the time, asking, what are you doing next?” she said, adding: “It’s so stressful to not know what you are doing next when people ask what you are doing and they can’t believe you don’t know what you are doing.”

“I’d like to hear from other people who are in transition,” she said. “How did you find your transition: Personal, professional, emotional, spiritual, financial? How did you get through it?”

Mrs. Shriver has asked for spiritual input and I personally think that unless she gets the spiritual help that she needs then she will end up in the divorce court. I am starting a series on how a marriage can survive an infidelity. My first suggestion would be to attend a “Weekend to Remember” put on by the organization “Family Life” out of Little Rock, Arkansas. I actually posted this as a response to Mrs. Shriver’s request on you tube.

I wanted to share the article “He Had Two Affairs in 18 Months,” by Mary May Larmoyeux. I found it very helpful on this subject. Here is the first portion:

Michael pulled his car over to the side in the middle of the bridge. He came to a rolling stop. Can I do it? he wondered. Can I jump?

Consumed by lust, he was cheating on his bride of less than 18 months. He was having an affair with a woman he hardly knew. He was also spending time with people who were dabbling with drugs and alcohol.

As he sat two feet from the railing of the bridge connecting sister cities, haunting thoughts ricocheted back and forth in his head:

Nobody will take you back.
Your parents will never accept you again. Look at how you’ve shamed them.
Angela’s dad trusted you when he gave her away on your wedding day.
How can you face Angela, knowing the poor decisions you’ve made?

Was there any way of escape? He looked at the swirling water below and wished that he could just end it all.

He believed in God but thought, Nothing can save me.

He had every intention of taking his life that night, but he just couldn’t do it.  

Michael turned the ignition key and made the painful drive home, knowing that he would have to tell Angela the truth.

A familiar cycle

When Angela and Michael (not their real names) were married, she expected a marriage like the one her parents had. Her mom and dad were best friends. They talked respectfully to each other when they disagreed. Because of her parents’ devotion to one another, she assumed that marriage would be easy. And Michael and she had even gone through premarital counseling with the pastor before they married.

Michael didn’t have any expectations when he married Angela. He just wanted it to last longer than his parents’ marriage did—seven years.

The relationship quickly began to follow a familiar cycle. They would enjoy great communication and intimacy, and then they would have an argument.

“We would give each other the silent treatment,” Michael says, “and it would last for days … and sometimes weeks.” Over and over again Michael replayed words Angela had uttered in anger.

Angela, who was going to college, thought that her young marriage to Michael was typical. Sure, they had some communication problems, but they went to church together and both professed to be Christians.

Soon after his near-suicide attempt, Michael returned home one evening and announced he was going to leave. “I told Angela that I didn’t want to have anything to do with her or our marriage,” he says. “I just really wanted to end it. I wanted to be in this other relationship.”

“I was crying and in shock,” Angela says.

Michael moved out and the next time Angela saw him was when they met at the courthouse to file the divorce papers. They discovered a paper was missing, and they didn’t file for divorce that day. And then, instead of continuing with the divorce proceedings, Michael started visiting his wife at the apartment. “We talked a lot,” Angela says, “and he shared more of what he was feeling.”

Michael ended the affair. Angela forgave him. They gave their marriage another try.

New arguments

Angela and Michael moved to another city to begin a new life together. She was confident that her husband’s infidelity would never happen again.

But the cycle of conflict and silence began again. They argued mainly about finances and sex, and there were a myriad of smaller issues: Where are we going to spend the holidays? … We spent just two days with my mom and dad, how can we spend four days with her parents? … Do we have the money to do this or to buy this? Why not? Why did you spend it all?

Their voices would get louder and louder when they disagreed. They often blamed one another. Angela says that she would walk away from Michael during arguments because she felt targeted. “I always thought, Why isn’t he coming and talking to me. … Why does he have to stonewall me for days and days?”

Despite their disagreements, they did enjoy times of intimacy. A few months after their move, Angela learned that she and Michael were going to have a baby. She was overjoyed and life seemed good to her. Michael, however, had never seen himself as dad material. “I wasn’t as excited as she was,” he says, “because we weren’t planning on being pregnant at that point in our lives.”

The hurtful truth

Michael began repeating old patterns—working late at night, having drinks with co-workers before coming home. “I alienated anything good or godly that was in my life,” he says. He repeatedly lied to avoid telling Angela the hurtful truth: He was seeing another woman again.

Because Michael worked in the world of retail, he often did not return home until 10 p.m. However, when he began arriving at 2 a.m., Angela became suspicious. “I knew in my gut that something wasn’t right,” she says, “but couldn’t make him tell me.”

Angela was about six months pregnant when Michael finally confessed his second affair in two years. It had been going on for about four months. Angela tried not to hyperventilate. She thought, This doesn’t happen to people like me.

He said, again, that he wanted a divorce. He said she should go live with her mom and dad.

The marriage conference

A month or so after Angela and Michael separated for the second time, Angela’s mother heard a radio advertisement for a Weekend to Remember®, a marriage getaway put on by FamilyLife. The ad promised help for struggling marriages, so she offered to send Michael and Angela to it….

Weekend to Remember “Getaway” Half Price Discount

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May 23, 2011 – 7:04 am Categories: Current Events | Post a comment

Pictures of Tornado damage in Joplin, MO May 22, 2011

 

A destroyed helicopter lies on its side in the ...

Destroyed helicopter lies on its side

A destroyed helicopter lies on its side in the parking lot of the Joplin Regional Medical Center in Joplin, Mo., Sunday, May 22, 2011. A large tornadomoved through much of the city, damaging the hospital and hundreds of homes and businesses

Emergency personnel walk through a neighborhood ...

Emergency personnel walk

Emergency personnel walk through a neighborhood severely damaged by a tornado near the Joplin Regional Medical Center in Joplin, Mo., Sunday, May 22, 2011.A large tornado moved through much of the city, damaging a hospital and hundreds of homes and businesses

Destroyed vehicles are piled on top of one another in the parking lot of the Joplin Regional Medical Center in Joplin, Mo., Sunday, May 22, 2011. A large tornado moved through much of the city, damaging the hospital and hundreds of homes and businesses.

Destroyed vehicles are piled on top of one another in the parking lot of the Joplin Regional Medical Center in Joplin, Mo., Sunday, May 22, 2011. A large tornado moved through much of the city, damaging the hospital and hundreds of homes and businesses. Photo by The Associated Press.

 

Hospital workers walk away from the Joplin Regional ...

Hospital workers walk away in Joplin, Mo

Hospital workers walk away from the Joplin Regional Medical Center in Joplin, Mo., Sunday, May 22, 2011. A large tornado moved through much of the city,damaging the hospital and hundreds of homes and businesses

Volunteer firefighters William Jackson, left, ...

Volunteer firefighters William Jackson

Volunteer firefighters William Jackson, left, and Ashley Martin, center, from Oklahoma, and Johnny Ward of Joplin look through the wreckage of a home whereit was feared a pregnant woman as feared to be trapped following a tornado in Joplin, Mo., Sunday, May 22, 2011. A large tornado moved through much of the city, damaging a hospital and hundreds of homes and businesses. The three did not find anyone during their search

 

** CORRECTS DATE TO May 23 **Emergency workers ...

Emergency workers wait for medical team

** CORRECTS DATE TO May 23 **Emergency workers wait for a medical team after finding a body in a tornado ravaged car in Joplin, Mo., Monday, May 23, 2011.A large tornado moved through much of the city Sunday, damaging a hospital and hundreds of homes and businesses

** CORRECTS DATE TO May 23 **An emergency worker ...

Emergency worker searches Walmart store

** CORRECTS DATE TO May 23 **An emergency worker searches a Walmart store that was severely damaged by a tornado in Joplin, Mo., Monday, May 23, 2011.A large tornado moved through much of the city Sunday, damaging a hospital and hundreds of homes and businesses.

** CORRECTS DATE TO May 23 ** An emergency worker ...

Emergency worker searches Walmart store

** CORRECTS DATE TO May 23 ** An emergency worker searches a Walmart store that was severely damaged by a tornado in Joplin, Mo., Monday, May 23, 2011.A large tornado moved through much of the city Sunday, damaging a hospital and hundreds of homes and businesses

 

A man walks past destroyed vehicles in the parking ...

Man walks past destroyed vehicles

A man walks past destroyed vehicles in the parking lot of the Joplin Regional Medical Center in Joplin, Mo., Sunday, May 22, 2011. A large tornado movedthrough much of the city, damaging the hospital and hundreds of homes and businesses.«

Rescuers and neighbors look through the the wreckage ...

Rescuers and neighbors look on hillside

Rescuers and neighbors look through the the wreckage of destroyed homes on a hillside in Joplin, Mo., Sunday, May 22, 2011. A large tornado moved throughmuch of the city, damaging a hospital and hundreds of homes and businesses.

People walk down a street lined with destroyed ...

People walk down street lined

People walk down a street lined with destroyed homes in Joplin, Mo., Sunday, May 22, 2011. A large tornado moved through much of the city, damaging a hospitaland hundreds of homes and businesses

A tractor trailer is tipped over on Interstate ...

Tractor trailer is tipped over

A tractor trailer is tipped over on Interstate 44 near Joplin, Mo., after the town was hit by a tornado on Sunday, May 22, 2011.

US tornado death toll rises to 89

** CORRECTS DATE TO May 23 **A body is seen in ...

Body is seen in tornado ravaged car

** CORRECTS DATE TO May 23 **A body is seen in a tornado ravaged car while emergency workers wait for a medical team to arrive in Joplin, Mo., Monday,May 23, 2011. A large tornado moved through much of the city Sunday, damaging a hospital and hundreds of homes and businesses

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Best Storm Chaser videos of Joplin Tornado May 22, 2011

Destructive Joplin Missouri Torando On May 22, 2011 a destructive and sadly a deadly tornado tore through the town of Joplin, MO. Here is video of the tornado entering the southwest side of town. Filmed by TornadoVideos.net Basehunters Colt Forney, Isaac Pato, Kevin Rolfs, and Scott Peake. Good Morning America: Joplin, Missouri Tornado Video: Storm […]

Pictures of Tornado damage in Joplin, MO May 22, 2011

  Destroyed helicopter lies on its side A destroyed helicopter lies on its side in the parking lot of the Joplin Regional Medical Center in Joplin, Mo., Sunday, May 22, 2011. A large tornadomoved through much of the city, damaging the hospital and hundreds of homes and businesses Emergency personnel walk Emergency personnel walk through […]

Video clips of tornado in Joplin,MO May 22, 2011(includes footage from the air, and storm chaser video)

 The last video listed does not have very good pictures but you hear when the tornado hits a building where people inside are filming. The sounds are just horrible and a cold feeling went through my body just listening to it. Joplin, Missouri tornado damage from the air Tornado damage of Joplin, Missouri. Aerial coverage […]

At least 89 dead, but still counting in Joplin, MO

    Volunteer firefighters William Jackson Volunteer firefighters William Jackson, left, and Ashley Martin, center, from Oklahoma, and Johnny Ward of Joplin look through the wreckage of a home whereit was feared a pregnant woman as feared to be trapped following a tornado in Joplin, Mo., Sunday, May 22, 2011. A large tornado moved through […]

Fox News reported today:   Rescue crews dug through piles of splintered houses and crushed cars Monday in a search for victims of a half-mile-wide tornado that blasted much of this Missouri town off the map and slammed straight into its hospital. At least 116 people died, making it the nation’s deadliest single tornado in nearly […]

May 23, 2011 – 7:01 am Categories: Current Events | Post a comment